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Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
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More Archie Shepp sayings
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with...And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete...I find that here in the States, audiences are generally...In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane...In rap music, even though the element of poetry is...It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the...Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is...Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then...So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an...So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a...To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a...Today, music is visual....Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially...You get a show where people are jumping up and...
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